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The McKenna Memorial Drive commemorates the services of the McKenna Family to the Shire of Kyneton.

In 1864, Martin McKenna was elected mayor of the borough of Kyneton. When Kyneton became a shire in 1865 he was its first president and remained a councillor till 1907. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Kyneton Boroughs in March 1868, and held the seat as a moderate protectionist until he retired in March 1874. In the Legislative Council he contested the North-Western Province in 1881 without success. He later held the post of returning officer for elections to the Legislative Assembly. He was also a justice of the peace.

Several members of the family carried on his civic interests in Kyneton.